Archive for May, 2010

100 Animals in One Small Apartment

The most recent episode of NTV’s “Unchiku-kun Shirisugi” featured a woman who has filed her small apartment with 100 animals of 40 different species:

She her job only brings in about 150,000 yen a month and almost all of it goes towards her pets. She’s even in the process of incubating more bird eggs so that she can increase the size of her personal zoo.

Nobody comments on it, but I’m sure her apartment must smell like a horribly mixture of 40 different types of animal poop.

[hat tip to Ken Y-N of What Japan Thinks]

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Ultra Fat Cats in Japan

“Nanikore” seems to be running out of some its more traditional wacky material, so in recent weeks it has started to feature hyper obese cats (first a 15kg cat, then a 9.5 kg cat):

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Tire Tricks

ATV’s foreign reporters (including Sahel Rosa) visit a tire shop in the Nishi-Kasai area of Tokyo, where a worker shows off some neat tire tricks he’s learned over the years:

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Non-Japanese Schools in Japan

A clip from NTV’s “Bankisha” that tells us about the most numerous non-Japanese schools in Japan:

1. Brazilian Schools (81) – These schools are concentrated in Aichi, Shizuoka, and Gunma prefectures, where the factories of the Japanese auto industry employ many Brazilian workers. The recent economic depression has caused the number of students to drop, causing serious trouble for many of these schools.
2. North Korean Schools (73) – Students are taught to respect Kim Jong-il and his father (but the kids also like South Korean pop music). NTV’s reporter sits in on a history class, where their teacher is telling them about how the DPRK forces heroically defeated the American invaders in the Korean War. The students think the DPJ’s plan to make high schools free in Japan should include subsidies that pay the tuition of DPRK-affiliated schools.
3. International Schools (27) – Schools aimed at multiple nationalities. This includes British and American schools.
4. Chinese Schools (5) - About 20% of the students are Japanese, since parents think that learning Chinese, English and Japanese will be beneficial.
5. Indian Schools (3) – They put a lot of emphasis on mathematics, which seems to involve some pretty big multiplication tables. They also learn IT skills.

Also featured is Jasuko, a Finnish school in Shiga prefecture. It apparently doesn’t have any students from Finland, but it does have a pretty nice Sauna.

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Lotteria’s Tower Cheeseburger

A YouTuber tries out Lotteria’s massive Tower Cheeseburger:

Lotteria chain has brought “Tower Cheese Burger” to the proving ground. It’s an ordinary single 160 Yen cheese burger but you can stack up to 10 patties for 100 Yen each.

You can see more photos of this monster burger over at Gigazine.

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Cola Shock w/ Vodka

The newest Cola Shock commercial follows-up on the last one, placing Meisa Kuroki in a fictional U.S.A. where people drink an alcoholic beverage sold only in Japan:

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